Question:  Your ASB accounting manual describes policies for elementary and secondary schools.  How do adult schools fit in?  For instance, are they like secondary schools where expenditures can not be made to augment the instructional program?

Response:  Adult schools are allowed to be unorganized, just like elementary schools, so they don’t need a student council or student clubs (and they don't need student signatures approving expenses). Even though the adult education students can raise funds, they have more limited involvement in decisions about the fund raising events and how the funds are spent. The governing board would delegate authority to oversee the raising and spending of funds to the school principal or other school employee.

There is an Education Code that allows elementary ASB funds to be used to finance activities for non-instructional periods or to augment or enrich the district’s programs for grades K -6 (Education Code section 48934). Although the ASB can be formed as unorganized, ASB funds for adult schools cannot be spent as liberally as K-6 unorganized ASB organizations.